Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Databases

Description

Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Databases is a five-day, instructor-led course that provides you with the knowledge and skills to maintain a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 database. The course focuses on teaching you how to use SQL Server 2014 product features and tools related to maintaining a database.

This course reinforces the lecture with guided, hands on labs. You can attend this SQL Server training either online or on-site in our Cincinnati office.

Note: This course is designed for customers who are interested in learning SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014. It covers the new features in SQL Server 2014, but also the important capabilities across the SQL Server data platform.

Key Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Databases Takeaways

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Describe core database administration tasks and tools.

Install and configure SQL Server 2014.

Configure SQL Server databases and storage.

Plan and implement a backup strategy.

Restore databases from backups.

Import and export data.

Monitor SQL Server.

Trace SQL Server activity.

Manage SQL Server security.

Audit data access and encrypt data.

Perform ongoing database maintenance.

Automate SQL Server maintenance with SQL Server Agent Jobs.

Configure Database Mail, alerts and notifications.

Outline

Module 1: Introduction to SQL Server 2014 Database Administration

This module introduces the Microsoft SQL Server 2014 platform. It describes the components, editions, and versions of SQL Server 2014, and the tasks that a database administrator commonly performs for a SQL Server instance.

Lessons

Database Administration Overview

Introduction to the SQL Server Platform

Database Management Tools and Techniques

Lab : Using SQL Server Administrative Tools

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the SQL Server platform.

Describe common database administration tasks.

Use SQL Server administration tools.

Module 2: Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2014

This module explains how to assess resource requirements for SQL Server 2014 and how to install it.

Lessons

Planning SQL Server Installation

Installing SQL Server 2014

Post-Installation Configuration

Lab : Installing SQL Server 2014

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Plan a SQL Server 2014 installation.

Install SQL Server 2014.

Perform post-installation configuration tasks.

Module 3: Working with Databases and Storage

This module describes how data is stored in databases, how to create databases, how to manage database files, and how to move them. Other tasks related to storage, include managing the tempdb database and using fast storage devices to extend the SQL Server buffer pool cache, are also discussed.

Lessons

Introduction to Data Storage with SQL Server

Managing Storage for System Databases

Managing Storage for User Databases

Moving Database Files

Configuring the Buffer Pool Extension

Lab : Managing Database Storage

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe how SQL Server stores data.

Manage storage for system databases.

Manage storage for user databases.

Move database files.

Configure the buffer pool extension.

Module 4: Planning and Implementing a Backup Strategy

In this module, you will consider how to create a backup strategy that is aligned with organizational needs, and learn how to perform the backup operations required by that strategy.

Lessons

Understanding SQL Server Recovery Models

Planning a Backup Strategy

Backing up Databases and Transaction Logs

Using Backup Options

Ensuring Backup Reliability

Lab : Backing Up SQL Server Databases

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe how database transaction logs function, and how they affect database recovery.

Plan a backup strategy for a SQL Server database.

Back up databases and transactions logs.

Perform copy-only, compressed, and encrypted backups.

Maximize backup reliability.

Module 5: Restoring SQL Server 2014 Databases

In this module, you will see how to restore user and system databases and how to implement point-in-time recovery.

Lessons

Understanding the Restore Process

Restoring Databases

Advanced Restore Scenarios

Working with Point-in-Time Recovery

Lab : Restoring SQL Server Databases

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Explain the restore process.

Restore databases.

Perform advanced restore operations.

Perform a point-in-time recovery.

Module 6: Importing and Exporting Data

In this module, you will briefly explore tools and techniques so that you can import and export data to and from SQL Server.

Lessons

Introduction to Transferring Data

Importing and Exporting Table Data

Copying or Moving a Database

Lab : Importing and Exporting Data

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe tools and techniques for transferring data.

Import and export data.

Copy or move a database.

Module 7: Monitoring SQL Server 2014

This module explains how to use three of the most commonly used tools: Activity Monitor, dynamic management views and functions (DMVs and DMFs), and Performance Monitor.

Lessons

Introduction to Monitoring SQL Server

Dynamic Management Views and Functions

Performance Monitor

Lab : Monitoring SQL Server 2014

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe considerations for monitoring SQL Server and use Activity Monitor.

Use dynamic management views and functions to monitor SQL Server.

Use Performance Monitor to monitor SQL Server.

Module 8: Tracing SQL Server Activity

This module describes how to use SQL Server Profiler and SQL Trace stored procedures to capture information about SQL Server, and how to use that information to troubleshoot and optimize SQL Server workloads.

Lessons

Tracing SQL Server Workload Activity

Using Traces

Lab : Tracing SQL Server Workload Activity

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Trace activity in SQL Server

Use captured traces to test, troubleshoot, and optimize database performance.

Module 9: Managing SQL Server Security

In this module, you will be learn about the core concepts on which the SQL Server security architecture is based, and how to manage security at the server and database levels.

This module covers the configuration of database mail, alerts, and notifications.

Lessons

Monitoring SQL Server Errors

Configuring Database Mail

Configuring Operators, Alerts, and Notifications

Lab : Monitoring SQL Server by Using Alerts and Notifications

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Configure Database Mail.

Monitor SQL Server errors.

Configure operators, alerts, and notifications

PreRequisites

This course requires that you meet the following prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality.

Working knowledge of Transact-SQL.

Working knowledge of relational databases.

Some experience with database design.

Students who attend this training can meet the prerequisites by attending the following courses, or obtaining equivalent knowledge and skills:

20461C: Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2014

Audience

The primary audience for this course is individuals who administer and maintain SQL Server databases. These individuals perform database administration and maintenance as their primary area of responsibility, or work in environments where databases play a key role in their primary job.

The secondary audience for this course is individuals who develop applications that deliver content from SQL Server databases.